Posts Tagged ‘Grove Street’

Lovesick on the Shop Floor

The first car may frequently be more important in a young man’s life than the first sex. Sometime in the first two weeks of May 1969, my dad bought me mine, a well-used blue Chevrolet Nova. The car finally necessitated that I get a job, in order to pay for insurance. The following Monday I was at the gate of the Grove Street plant of the Ford Motor Company.

Rusted Out: Some Personal Glimpses of the Tragedy of Detroit

Detroit had my whole lifetime to get this right: Snapshots of the rise and fall of the automobile industry and its home turf.